Right attitudes are personal energy producers

The need to protect your attitude

An attitude is a perception or a feeling that creates a path for your behavior to follow.  In other words, change your attitude, and you can change your actions. Attitudes can actually shape the course of the future, and are even reflected in the right and wrong decisions that have made history.  

Attitudes are contagious, and for this reason they can set the tone of a day, meeting, or relationship. Attitudes can spread from one person to another without the recipient even knowing it. If you struggle with a bad attitude, it can weaken the resolve of others to stay positive, leaving them vulnerable to the same bad attitude that controls you. I don’t know who said it, but it’s true: “A bad attitude is like a flat tire; you can’t go anywhere until you change it.”

Good attitudes must be cultivated in order to weed out self-centered, negative ones.  You don’t simply stop a bad attitude; you must replace it with a good one. It starts the moment you go to bed, and must be put in practice when your feet hit the floor in the morning. Practice the good attitude, and this will become the stronger, more predictable response.  A good attitude takes no energy, but is energy-producing. It opens doors of opportunities, makes us more teachable, and people will actually enjoy being around us.

All the days of the afflicted are evil, but the cheerful of heart has a continual feast. (Proverbs 15:15)